Edginess

(photo by Richard Boettcher)

I want to stand as close to the ends as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.

~ Kurt Vonnegut

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I love this image. It clearly was taken at the end of the roll. I assume it was meant to capture the vastness of the mountains. Instead, with the color and then the image vanishing on the right side and the stop sign in the foreground and the fence along the field... It looks like it could be from the Twilight Zone or some dystopian landscape from a post-apocalyptic future.

Or maybe it IS a photo from a post-apocalyptic past and we are now living in an even further post-apocalyptic future. The Mesopotamians used the word apocalypse to mean something revealed or an unveiling. In essence, is not all future an unveiling to reveal something new? 

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I don't know. I'm asking YOU. It's not a rhetorical question. 

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Still nothing? Sheesh. I bet people were smarter pre-apocalypse.